Trial delayed for OWI homicide suspect

7:53 PM,
Oct. 30, 2013

Ashley Baumann, 23, appears for her hearing Wednesday in Lincoln County court in Merrill.

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Shereen Siewert
Daily Herald Media

Victims and families could have to wait until late 2014 for the trial of a Merrill woman accused of driving drunk and leaving two friends dead and another badly injured in a 2012 high-speed crash.

A reluctant Lincoln County Circuit Judge Jay Tlusty on Wednesday granted a prosecutor's request to delay the trial for 25-year-old Ashley Baumann, which was set to begin Dec. 16. Lincoln County District Attorney Donald Dunphy asked for the delay after he learned a key witness in the case would be unavailable to testify during the trial.